The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 10
The little soldier entered the courtyard, and, peeping through a window, saw a large fire blazing at the end of a low hall.
Who acts: little soldier, large fire · What happens: enter, peep, see, blaze · To what, where: courtyard, large fire, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little soldier, large fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soldier | amod |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 courtyard | det |
| 6 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 peeping | punct |
| 10 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 window | det |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 peeping | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 peeping | punct |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fire | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fire | amod |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 fire | acl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blazing | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hall | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hall | det |
| 25 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hall | amod |
| 26 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the little soldier | the courtyard | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Destination | ||||
| 2 | peep | gerund | through a window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the little soldier not said here | a large fire | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | blaze | gerund | a large fire not said here | at the end of a low hall | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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